ElectroVagrant

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[–] ElectroVagrant 2 points 7 months ago

I think while some of this may be people being people (i.e. tendency to only discuss issues/problems vs accomplishments/solutions), I think there's also a technical element to it as well in Lemmy's case.

Up to the latest release of Lemmy (as of writing this is v0.19.4), admins couldn't adjust the default sort setting, which was Active. Read the docs on the sort setting and Active does what it says, surfaces those posts with recent commenting activity (taking into account score as well).

So you get this unfortunate mix of: people gravitate to discussing negative stuff, people tend not to change default settings (since despite defaults being Active, we can change these if so inclined), and the default sort settings surface whatever is being most discussed/commented on, resulting in this sort of negativity feedback loop you've observed.

I noticed and posted about this a few months ago, have tried to upvote and comment on less negatively-focused posts occasionally, but I think this may be an interesting example of a small scale systemic issue as it takes more of us doing similar to address what's being encountered. However, as more instances update to v0.19.4, I'll be interested in seeing if admins decide to switch away from the Active sort setting to try to address this in their own way.

I don't know what sort setting may be better for instances to run with instead, but I'm glad they now have the option. In the meantime I think it's worth reminding people that they currently have the option to change their default sort settings to something different to try to see different kinds of posts. Personally I switch between New and Scaled to see a variety of posts beyond many of the regular doom and gloom posts.

[–] ElectroVagrant 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Appreciate the adjustments and responsiveness! Gave it another try after this and the different formatting hit the spot! Still need to use more to see more finely tuned results, but dig the idea.

Also as others have already said plenty, would be cool to see this cleaned up for an open source release. If you'd like to see how some others are handling a sorta similar idea but with RSS feeds, you might look to Nunti for ideas on how to approach it.

[–] ElectroVagrant 4 points 7 months ago

For those wondering about which models, from the article:

Toyota Motor Corp., based in Toyota city, central Japan, suspended production in the country of the Corolla Fielder, Corolla Axio and Yaris Cross.

[–] ElectroVagrant 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Little feedback on the UI from taking a peek at this.

When I went into settings and adjusted post display style from card to anything else, it wasn't clear to me that this wouldn't apply to the new For You feed, which left me confused and less inclined to use it. I still gave it a try to make sure I wasn't missing anything and to see how much the feed seemed to change with some light interaction, but I think you'd need to use it more than I did to see an effect.

Problem being: display settings not applying to the For You feed means I'm not going to use it much with the default card view.

Second part is that there was some comment display lag as I looked through posts, so if I looked at a post about cats with cat-related comments, those comments would linger and appear for a moment under a different post about possums. It's just long enough to be noticeable, so thought it worth mentioning.

[–] ElectroVagrant 2 points 7 months ago

If at some point Lemmy.zip gets a wiki (if it doesn't already have one), I hope one of the urls for it ends up as xyz.lemmy.zip

[–] ElectroVagrant 11 points 7 months ago

Huh. I had to take a quick glance at the timestamp of this article to make sure it wasn't old, as this was the same issue that inspired a short-lived fork a few years ago.

I get where this article's coming from, as I got where the people trying to fork it under a different name were too, however for better or worse I think what matters even more to people is that the software works well and has a good UX. If I remember right, I think Glimpse intended to focus on improving the UX but it didn't last long enough to do much in that regard.

Better than my memory though, here's an article that gives some insight into what went into the cessation of its development.

[–] ElectroVagrant 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It’s really hard to gauge humanity when it really only takes a few terrible people to ruin things for everyone else.

Using that perspective to recognize the many other alright people I think might be a way for people to encourage one another and feel less wary of calling out bad actors. It's a funny thing, but the same live and let live tendencies we appreciate from others at times seems to diminish the slight resolve necessary to push back against those negatively affecting many others.

Similarly, I think it's beneficial to recognize the good as much as the bad, as otherwise we take the former for granted and can grow too jaded and overly cynical.

[–] ElectroVagrant 3 points 7 months ago

It's a fun way of saying be yourself more or less, and also that we're in major industries and always have been and will be; plus that we've always been around regardless of what others may insist

[–] ElectroVagrant 1 points 7 months ago

Didn't honestly expect so much advice, but appreciate all of it! Feel free to share some interesting stories as well though!

[–] ElectroVagrant 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is all just for hiking. For backpacking I have way more.

Is backpacking marathon hiking? 🤔

[–] ElectroVagrant 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

In the worst case they don't get anything at all 😬

[–] ElectroVagrant 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Tales from the Crypt for spookies.

Mentioning this in contrast with funnies got me thinking...And hey, they did meet!

Elvira sitting beside the Cryptkeeper with her hand to her cheek, and his hand on her left hand on an armrest.

 

Lil' cross-post from Lemmy.ca.

With women’s fashion, it’s an easy one with pockets and for some probably less sheer/thin or tight-fitting clothing depending on their preferences, but for men…?

What would you like to see done differently in men’s fashion?

 

Lil' cross-post from Lemmy.ca.

With women’s fashion, it’s an easy one with pockets and for some probably less sheer/thin or tight-fitting clothing depending on their preferences, but for men…?

What would you like to see done differently in men’s fashion?

 

Lil' cross-post from Lemmy.ca.

With women’s fashion, it’s an easy one with pockets and for some probably less sheer/thin or tight-fitting clothing depending on their preferences, but for men…?

What would you like to see done differently in men’s fashion?

 

Lil' cross-post from Lemmy.ca.

With women’s fashion, it’s an easy one with pockets and for some probably less sheer/thin or tight-fitting clothing depending on their preferences, but for men…?

What would you like to see done differently in men’s fashion?

 

Lil' cross-post from the Lemmy.ca community.

With women’s fashion, it’s an easy one with pockets and for some probably less sheer/thin or tight-fitting clothing depending on their preferences, but for men…?

What would you like to see done differently in men’s fashion?

 

With women's fashion, it's an easy one with pockets and for some probably less sheer/thin or tight-fitting clothing depending on their preferences, but for men...?

What would you like to see done differently in men's fashion?

 

This may seem kinda ironic to be posting about, but when I say offline, I don't mean strictly physical (like print books), so much as stuff that still works even when internet's disrupted or whatever.

This may be a tell of my age in some respects, but I still enjoy downloading music, games, ebooks, or (more rarely) movies that simply work without phoning home or updating super often. There's a weird sort of relief that I have both physical & digital fallbacks for when there's a "storm in the clouds" so to speak.

One piece of media I've been meaning to look into to help in this space are maps. Maps are tricky given that they're living documents, but I'd love to get a good downloadable/print map for reference.

Btw little protip if you're on Android, check out Aard2 and downloadable dictionaries. They're remarkably small, and it's so much better than the ad-littered dictionary sites/apps, and even supports multiple languages.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ElectroVagrant to c/meta@lemm.ee
 

So, I just kinda stumbled into one of the communities here (/c/casualconversation) and noticed it was empty, nothing in the sidebar, but figured it wouldn't hurt to make a post & try to help it out.

Well, uh, I happened to look at the moderator's profile and XeNoX has apparently been pretty busy making a load of communities here. Technically nothing wrong with that, and I'm not super familiar with lemm.ee's rules regarding this, but I thought it might be worth giving folks here a heads-up.

On the plus side, you have a bunch of communities already open that just need some more moderators & descriptions/rules set up, lol

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1378961

Had a realization with the cross-posting feature, so I'm giving it a try.

This isn't my community, nor even my home instance, and the fun idea is if this pans out as I think it should, small communities can get some attention, and each community/instance cross-posted to in turn gets some attention!

Edit:
Hrrm. Kbin doesn't appear to have the same cross-post indicators, so this idea doesn't work as well on Kbin, but it's still a good method to potentially get attention to Kbin magazines across Lemmy, so there's that.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1378961

Had a realization with the cross-posting feature, so I'm giving it a try.

This isn't my community, nor even my home instance, and the fun idea is if this pans out as I think it should, small communities can get some attention, and each community/instance cross-posted to in turn gets some attention!

 

Had a realization with the cross-posting feature, so I'm giving it a try.

This isn't my community, nor even my home instance, and the fun idea is if this pans out as I think it should, small communities can get some attention, and each community/instance cross-posted to in turn gets some attention!

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